Icones avium, or, Figures and descriptions of new and interesting species of birds from various parts of the globe

by: Gould, John, 1804-1881, author, illustrator, lithographer; Gould, Elizabeth, 1804-1841, illustrator, lithographer; Hullmandel, Charles Joseph, 1789-1850, printer of plates; Brandt, Johann Friedrich, 1802-1879, former owner. DSI; Gould, John, 1804-1881, inscriber. DSI; Salomons, David, Sir, 1851-1925, former owner. DSI; Phipps, John H. H., former owner. DSI; Richard and John Edward Taylor (Firm), printer; Riviere & Son, binder. DSI

Publication date: 1837

Topics: Birds

Collection: biodiversity

Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English; Latin

Volume: pt.1-2 (1837-1838)

Cover titles (taken from original printed wrappers which are bound in)

No more published

"This work was interrupted by Gould's departure for Australia in search of material for his work on the birds of that region, and was never resumed. Certain of the species were described in papers read in advance before the Zoological Society of London, but in most cases these descriptions were never published in the 'Proceedings' of that body." --Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library

Each plate accompanied by leaf of descriptive letterpress

Plates signed: Drawn from nature and on stone by J. & E. Gould; printed by Hullmandel

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part I. Eurylaimus (Crossodera) Dalhousiae. Todus multicolor. Ianthocincla phoenicea. Calliope pectoralis. Microura squamata. Paradoxornis flavirostris. Pteroglossus (Selenidera) Gouldii. Numida vulturina. Ortyx plumifera. Cursorius rufus. -- Part II. Monograph of the Caprimulgidae. Part I. Amblypterus anomalus. Nyctidromus Derbyanus. Semeïophorus (Macrodipteryx?) vexillarius. Lyncornis cerviniceps. Lyncornis macrotis. [Lyncornis] temminckii. Batrachostomus auritus. Nyctibius pectoralis

Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library

Anker, J. Bird books and bird art

Nissen, C. Illustrierten Vogelbücher

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SCNHRB copy 39088002876563 is inscribed to Professor [Johann Friedrich] Brandt by John Gould on the wrapper for each of the two parts

SCNHRB copy was complete with all eighteen unnumbered plates present at the time of recataloging (February, 2017)

SCNHRB copy has bookplates: 1. (armorial) Sir David Lionel Goldsmid Stern Salomons of Broomhill, Kent, Baronet, with motto: Deo adjuvante; 2. John H.H. Phipps (donor of this copy to the Smithsonian Libraries). Two unidentified, printed bookseller's catalog descriptions for this edition (and possibly for this specific copy) are pasted on the front free endpaper

SCNHRB copy has an old gilt-tooled half-morocco leather binding with green cloth-covered boards, raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt, with the original printed paper wrappers bound in. Binding signed on front paste-down endpaper: Bound by Riviere & Son